Huntsville gazette., 1887-01-08
L. IL.

The Paris correspondent of the London
Times reiterates his statement regarding a
RussO-German alliance.
TIE report of the Senate committee on
transportation routes to the seaboard
shows some remarkable facts as to the
growth of cereal production in the United
States.
PRESTON, KEAN & Co., Chicago. have
been ordered by Judge Gresham to pay the
Nodaway Valley Bank the amouat of the
bonds stolen by Ker, the defaulting
cashier, who fed to Peru.
SIX soldiers were killed by a gas ex-
plosion in Cambridge barracks, Ports
mouth, Eng, on the 3D.. Twenty-one weae
found and extricated from the ruins of
the barracks. All of the rescued were
more er less injured.
THE exclusive right to sell salt on the
lsthmus of Panama will be granted to
whoever will paw the highest price for it.
The recent cold weather has covered the
st. Lawrence river with ice, sufficiently
strong to allow of the crossing of teams
between Cape Vincent and Kingston, o
distance of twelve miles.
A SERIOUS fire in the Odescalchi palace
at Rome on the I'd, was caused by the lights
on Christmas tree. All the jewels be-
longing to the princess, all the valuable
missals and pictures, including small
Raphael, and the whole of the splendid
collection of ancient furniture on the
second floor were burned. The loss is
81, ,0G0,000. The palace was not injured.
THE Journal de st. Petersburg denies the
stories that the Gar is insane, and charac-
teriZeS as falsehoods the several actions
attributed to the Gear and referred to as
illustrating the nature of his malady.
THE customs receipts for December
were SIG, ,331, $50, or about 100000 more
than in December, 1885; internal revenue
receipts were 50, 543, S45, about $4,000 less
than in December, 1885. Government ex.
penditures during December were SIS, 49,
ia, or about 900 more than in De
cember 1885.
The President has approved the bills to
extend the free-delivery system OF the
Post-Oftice Department and modify the
postal money order system; also the act
providing for public building at Spring
field, Mass, and the act for the relief OF
the survivors and relatives of the victims
of the Jeanette Arctic expedition.
The issue of standard silver dollars
from the mints during the week ended
December 81, was S5i1,665; during the cor
responding period of last year, s476, ,684.
The shipments of fractional silver coin
during December amounted to S637, ,405
The coinage at the mints during December
amounted to S4,S14,252, of which s., $50, 261
were standard dollars.
TIE December fire loss in the United
States and Canada is estimated at S11,-
eco, 900, and the loss during 1886 at Sl16,
100000. This is largely in excess of
previous figures, both as regards the
month of December and the year just
ended.
THE total revenue of the United States
from all sources for the first hall
Of the current fiscal year ended December
81, 1856 were $3.50, ,6S3, ,007, or nearly $14, 900,
900 more than during the first half OF
the preceding fiscal year. Expendi-
lures for the first half of this current
year were S144, ,40l $40, against $780, 045, 73G
during the first half of 1855. These fig
ures indicate a net revenue or. excess OF
receipts above expenditures amounting to
S36, ,00O,000 during the first half of the cur
rent fiscal year.